How to Add Social Media Icons with a Hover Effect to Your Blog for Blogger & Wordpress

August 26, 2016


Having links to all of your social media pages front and center on your blog is very important. It let's readers know what pages are really your's and links them directly so they don't have to go searching. And when the code is right they can be linked to your social media without ever leaving your blog!

Today I'm going to show you a code that works for both blogger and wordpress blogs. Any blog that allows you to add HTML gadgets really. 

This code is fairly easy to edit and add it to your blog. It is also very easy to add more buttons once you've already posted it.

This code is a lot like the code from my other social media icons post. The only difference is that this one is designed for two images so when the a mouse cursor goes over the button it changes color. This one is just as simple as the last one to edit. I just needs two image URLs

Here is a demo of how the hover works:

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How to Add Social Media Icons to Your Blog for Blogger & Wordpress



Having links to all of your social media pages front and center on your blog is very important. It let's readers know what pages are really your's and links them directly so they don't have to go searching. And when the code is right they can be linked to your social media without ever leaving your blog!

Today I'm going to show you a code that works for both blogger and wordpress blogs. Any blog that allows you to add HTML gadgets really. 

This code is fairly easy to edit and add it to your blog. It is also very easy to add more buttons once you've already posted it.


How to Make Your Blog Look Like It's Not on Blogger

August 22, 2016



My blog is hosted on blogger. Can you tell? Probably not. I have removed the blogger navbar, the attribution that says "powered by blogger" and I changed my favicon to my own logo instead of blogger's logo. 

I also removed almost every blogger gadget on my blog and replaced them with HTML gadgets that give me more customization and are easier to edit and from my point of view I got rid of those annoying little wrenches and pencils called "quick edit" tools

I've also edited my HTML itself. HTML is all the code that goes together to create your blog. I've added HTML Gadgets but I've also edited the HTML backbone itself. 

Today we are going to get into a little HTML editing and adding a little CSS code. Don't worry I'm not going to get to in depth with HTML editing. Today the HTML editing is all just search and delete.


How to Center Titles with CSS Code on Blogger

August 15, 2016



This one is a short and Simple Tutorial. For some reason Blogger really doesn't like to center things. I remember this being so frustrating when I started using Blogger. It's actually really simple fix. Just a few lines of CSS code and poof everything is centered.


How to Start a Blogger Blog + Why I Chose Blogger


Hello Everyone! Today is going to be a bit different than my usual beauty and lifestyle posts. I have decided to start a series about blogging. Things like my favorite blogging tips to code tutorials. All the little things I've learned since starting this blog. 
When I started I knew nothing about code, now my blog is completely customized by code and there is nothing left of the original template I started with. 

I actually started my blog on Tumblr and decided I need to switch over to a better blogging platform pretty early on. I had only heard of Blogger so I decided to make the switch over. I had to copy and paste all of my posts and publish them one by one. Lucky for me blogger has the option to set the date for a post. I was able to add the original date to each post. 

Monthly Favorites | July 2016


I can't believe it's August already. This year is going by in such a blur. I feel like July went by so fast I barely got time to even try things to favorite. This year is going to fast I hope it slows down in the fall months so I can really enjoy it. I may have mentioned it 2 or three times or 100 but I love fall. It's my favorite time of year! It's the perfect time of year. 

OK I'm rambling. Let's get to my favorites.


The Beauty Lover TAG

July 28, 2016


I found this tag when searching Twitter for new beauty tags. This tag was written by Holly of Bloomin' Rouge. She wrote it at the beginning of this year so it's not exactly new but I really liked the questions so I thought I'd give it a try.

It's a little different that beauty tags I've done in the past. So it should be really fun! Let's get this tag started.

Monthly Favorites | June 2016

July 13, 2016


I can't believe it's July already. And it's already almost half over. 2016 is running past in a blur. July can keep running. I hate hot weather and it's been in the 90s here.

I can't wait for fall! September could not get here fast enough! I hate the heat. I'm the kind of person you stays inside in AC so cold it would snow if it could. I love the chilly air of Fall and all of the beautiful changing leaves. I can't wait for it to get here!

Since they are 2 weeks late let's get these favorites started.


Beauty


Monthly Favorites | May 2016

July 10, 2016


Alright May Favorites! Only 1 month late... Oops. I'm back now and playing some catch up then it's back to my usual upload routine. New post every 4-6 days. Finally!

Well they are already a month late so let's get to my favorite things of May!



Beauty

Monthly Favorites | April 2016


I'm back! I haven't uploaded in almost two months! I needed to take a break from writing and now I'm ready to start up again. So since they are very late here are my April Favorites. Finally, it's only been 2 months since they should have been up. My May and June Favorites will be up shortly. Bare with me while I play catch up.

Since they are two months late I won't take any longer let's get into my April Favorites!



Beauty

Influenster #SproutVoxBox - Unboxing

May 28, 2016





Hello everyone! I'm so excited to be doing my second voxbox unboxing! If you haven't heard of Influenster you can check out my post all about them and the voxboxes.

Influenster is such a cool company. They hook you up with lots of great products in exchange for your honest reviews. You get a box and then write reviews of the products and complete the tasks to unlock badges. 

This is my second voxbox you can find my other unboxing here if you would like to see it. It was full of really great beauty products.

This voxbox is centered around spring. It's full of things like health snacks and skincare samples.

Here are the goodies I got in my Sprout VoxBox.


This or That TAG

May 02, 2016


I've done a beauty edition, a fall edition, and a Christmas edition of the This or That TAG but I haven't done a normal edition of this tag yet. I thought it was time before I do anther seasonal or holiday editions. So I came up with 30 random this or that questions. There is no main theme to this one. Just some fun questions.

I've separated the questions into a four different categories, life, food, entertainment, and tech to make it a little less chaotic. 

Let's get to it!


My Blog Turns 1!

April 28, 2016


Today is the one year anniversary of starting my blog! I can't believe I've been doing this for a year! It seems like I started this yesterday. I've had so much fun writing all about beauty and just anything and everything is past year and I can't wait to keep doing it! Thank you to everyone who has been reading the blog for the past year! The past year has seriously been the best of my life for so many different reasons! I have some really fun ideas for post heading into year 2! I hope you will all join me in the next year! 

To celebrate 1 year of writing here's a link to my favorite posts of the last year! Check them out there is plenty more to come in the next year!

Thank you all for an amazing year! Let's get started on year 2!





Photo credit: Taken by me with a Canon Rebel T5 and a 18-55mm lens and edited by me in Photoshop.

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